Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people. - Ben Hecht

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Ben Hecht: "Movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century. Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them -- as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people."

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American	Americans	Becoming	Century
Chiefly	Corrupted	Cultured	Effect
Eruption	Habits	Intellectual	Lamed
Mind	Movies	Nation	Offer
People	Retarded	Side	Sins
Them	Trash	Viewpoint	Worst
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